Day Driving

You can drive a school bus locally I am pretty sure they don't drive at night

 

I have a local gig, begin at 7:00am and clock out at 3:30pm M - F when not pulling overtime. Paid by the hour, get overtime pay, Monday though Friday and flatbed hauling building materials. Love it!

 

What about oversize loads ? Aren't they prohibited from night driving ? If they are that could be an option for ya...

 

I don't think you're going to completely avoid night driving, but it's not hard to have a start time during daylight and end with still daylight, winter might be tough though. Look into construction companies, any local carriers you can find, movers, grocery store delivery, etc. They seem like a terrible choice because of the 6 day work week for the amount of money you get paid, but JB Hunt has local, day shift contracts all over the place, but they're mainly along 95. Ryder has a lot of local accounts too, and a lot of their deliveries have to be during business hours of the company. If you want to go on the road, you're kind of bound to when the load picks up and delivers. Sometimes you can only drive during daylight, and sometimes you're stuck at night.

But, I'd stop fearing being east of 95. NYC is a terrible place that even a bicycle is a headache to get through there. But the rest of the east coast is easy. I do it every day. I keep those gaps in front of my truck that people claim is impossible to do in the northeast. If you're coming this far east, you're probably just running between warehouses, which is easy, even if you're sent to NYC (which would most likely be a night shift, so no NYC leaves you some room). They tend to be in places that trucks can go. You should see some of the places that I have to fit these things.

 

If night time driving is out for some, what will some do during heavy snowfalls? Heavy rains? Heavy Winds? Heavy traffic where you're sitting for hours on end?

Wannabe a trucker, one had better be able to handle it all, or get the hell away from the idea of becoming a member of the industry.

What's next, someone wanting to be President of the USA and not wanting to deal with leaders of foreign countries, and any crisis that arises?

Would there be a point and time when someone is handed an all day sucker and told to "suck it up buttercup"?

 

If he's stressing with a 102 wide trailer in traffic, he most certainly pop a fuse if he went bigger. Not a good suggestion.

 

Some states allow night driving depending on the load. Some places you can only move oversized loads at night. Like over the GW Bridge if I'm not mistaken.

 

Yep, they will shut down the bridge till all the wide loads get across.

 

And that's the thing that causes confusion. Every state has it's own different OSOW regs. You will have one set of regs for OSOW, then another completely different set for superloads in metro areas. For example, I had to pull a load through the Twins. You have the usual metro curfews, something like "no OSOW movements between 0600-0900 and 1600-1800" , evening curfew between 2200-0200. Factor in elogs too. Because the load qualified as a superload, I had to move it through the Twins between 0200-0600.
Baltimore does something similar. They line you up on that gigantic wide spot on the east side of the loop where you sit all day and run through late at night. It's even tougher in the east because you can't run the weekends when there is no metro and school curfews for the really big loads.

 

My kids get on the school bus in the dark in the winter...pretty sure the school board isn't gonna want to rearrange the schedule around one driver. Local beer haulers....same thing.....start at 05:00 but it doesn't get light until 08:00.

Garbage trucks, recycle trucks.....sorry.

Find another line of work. Next troll....you're up.